Per-flow Packet Loss Ratios Induced by an Overflowed Buffer

Andrzej Chydzinski, Blazej Adamczyk

2021

Abstract

Packet losses are common in TCP/IP networks. The main reason of that is the statistical multiplexing of flows at routers’ output buffers, resulting in random overflows of these buffers and dropping of packets. Although the losses caused by an overflowed buffer have been widely studied, these studies were mainly devoted to the aggregated traffic. Namely, the total loss ratio was analyzed, for all the packets arriving to the buffer, without distinction between separate flows. In this paper, we study the packet loss ratios suffered by distinct flows arriving to a common buffer. We first observe that the loss ratios of particular flows may differ significantly from each other, and from the total loss ratio. Then we single out the properties of the flow that may influence the per-flow loss ratio. We study also possible mutual dependencies between the flows, i.e. possibilities that the properties of one flow influence the loss ratios of other flows. Finally, we study the impact of the buffer size and the distribution of the service time (packet size) on the per-flow loss ratios, as well as their relations to ech other.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Chydzinski A. and Adamczyk B. (2021). Per-flow Packet Loss Ratios Induced by an Overflowed Buffer. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: QQSS, ISBN 978-989-758-536-4, pages 621-628. DOI: 10.5220/0010708500003058

in Bibtex Style

@conference{qqss21,
author={Andrzej Chydzinski and Blazej Adamczyk},
title={Per-flow Packet Loss Ratios Induced by an Overflowed Buffer},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: QQSS,},
year={2021},
pages={621-628},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010708500003058},
isbn={978-989-758-536-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: QQSS,
TI - Per-flow Packet Loss Ratios Induced by an Overflowed Buffer
SN - 978-989-758-536-4
AU - Chydzinski A.
AU - Adamczyk B.
PY - 2021
SP - 621
EP - 628
DO - 10.5220/0010708500003058